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First modern : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / George E. Thomas.
Author
Thomas, George E.
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Philadelphia : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, [2017]
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
Description
127 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
N680 .T46 2017
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Art museum architecture
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
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History
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19th century
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Art schools
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
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History
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19th century
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Architecture and society
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
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History
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19th century
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Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Buildings, structures, etc
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Furness, Frank 1839-1912
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Hewitt, George Watson 1841-1916
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Summary note
From the Crystal Palace to the skyscraper and on to the functional aesthetic of the German Bauhaus, the development of modern architecture required less than seven decades. Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts warrants a central place in this narrative. Unlike the earlier buildings that made fragmentary and disconnected use of the latest industrial materials and systems, the Academy project combined the critical elements of modern logistical planning-steel and iron construction and modern plumbing, heating, and ventilation systems designed to serve a workplace and a school-with the architectural expression of the age. Moreover, rather than seeking to reify the past, architects Furness & Hewitt had chosen the most dynamic of modern forces, the machine, as both inspiration and ornament. Instead of being based on the rearview mirror, the new Academy, opened in 1876, looked to the present and the future. This created a civic museum and school building whose expressive style referenced both its updated purpose and a novel attitude toward history. The Academy's machine for making art can rightly be termed the first modern building.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / David R. Brigham
First modern: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / George E. Thomas. Ahead of the curve ; Cause and effect ; Architecture in the city of applied science ; The changing board: businessmen, manufacturing interests, and a "new departure" ; The selected site ; The competition ; The choices ; Creative friction ; "Comparatively unsolved difficulties" ; Antecedents ; The new client and the new theory of design ; Building the Academy: the panic of 1873 ; Learning from the Academy ; Reception ; History as myth, myth as history ; First Modern ; Today ; Appendix. The subscription list
Chronology / Isaac Kornblatt-Stier.
ISBN
9780943836430 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0943836433
LCCN
2017018720
OCLC
980437704
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